The Rise Of Communism In Vietnam

Kennedy was going to pull back on the Vietnam war: President Kennedy was going to get our troops out of Vietnam. He already had issued an order, NSAM 1093, that called for 1,000 military advisers to be called back home. The writer happens to have direct knowledge of this pull-out of troops. A very close associate, in the position to know, said that Sam Adams of the CIA research team, wrote a letter detailing what a grave mistake a conflagration in Viet-Nam would be. For the USA. Kennedy met with him a second time and Sam Adams felt that JFK was, in fact, going to get us out of this war. Robert Kennedy ran for president in 1968, believing the same thing as did his brother. LBJ's first act as president was to rescind NSAM 1093. There was too much money committed to this war. The Industrial Military Complex was now in

The Vietnam War, lasting for approximately 20 years, was the longest and one of the most controversial wars in American history. Not only did the war take a heavy toll on the American troops fighting abroad, but it also led to riots and tension amongst Americans on the homefront. Two presidents devoted to winning the war against the spread of Communism in Vietnam as quickly and effectively as possible were Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Although Johnson was a Democrat and Nixon was a Republican, their foreign policies in Vietnam were similar because they both kept secrets about the war from Congress and because both of their foreign policies were disliked by the American public. However, they differed because Johnson escalated the United

Importantly, President John F. Kennedy policy on foreign helped make a great president. According to Bureau of Public Affair, “Kennedy’s foreign Policy”, Kennedy’s formed alliance with Latin America to help poor women and man that suffer from hunger and poverty. The United State hoped that Latin America will make the countries stronger. Next, Kennedy’s began American involvement with Vietnam. He’s getting involved because he received conflict advice from Vietnam. South Vietnam had a war about the Geneva Accord into Communist North Vietnam but not south. Kennedy’s goal is to containing communism so he supported South Vietnam and expand the military. And then American war in Vietnam was over because North Vietnam captured the capital city of Saigon. Now one of Kennedy’s important foreign policy

Vietnam War goes down to be one of the most traumatic wars in American history. Among many of the American citizens have argued about the real reason and cause for the start of the Vietnam War. John Prados states what he believes to be the true cause of the Vietnam War was done solely by the hands of one important president. “President John F. Kennedy got the United States into the Vietnam War by

Kennedy was an American communist named Harvey Lee Oswald. In fact, Oswald did not have an easy life and struggled a lot with citizenships. Because of the political ideas from the United-states and the capitalism, he decided to move to Russia. Thus he declined his American citizenship and asked for a Russian citizenship. Unfortunately, he did not get the Russian nationality because he was not useful to get American secret information, but the government allowed him to stay in the country as a tourist . However, Oswald did not like the Russian communism mostly because of the totalitarianism. Hence he decided to go in Cuba because he believed that the Cuban communism was better than Russia. He tried to go to Cuba, but the country did not let him so he went back to the U.S.A. However, Oswald still believed that Cuba was the perfect communist country and he was an extremist pro-Castro. So he went back to America, found a job, but he was reading a lot of journals and communist journals. Then he realized that the American government wanted to kill the president of Cuba, Fidel Castro. Oswald did not want this to happened, hence he decided to stop his

One communist in particular hated everything to do with President Kennedy. His name was Lee Harvey Oswald. He was one of those communists who can’t stand to look at presidents, listen to presidents, nor talk to one. He was anything but happy with the democracy.

Vietnam War: Unlike the current president of the United States, Kennedy did not wish to continue to fight in the Vietnam War. He found rather pointless and a waste of human life, “...We have dropped more bombs in Vietnam and South Vietnam than we did in Germany during the whole second world war. What else can you bomb? Who else can you kill? I am not blaming the general who ordered the bombing that resulted in 35 000 deaths but I am blaming me and I’m blaming you. We are the American people and we permitted that.”

On November 8th 1960 former president John F Kennedy defeated vice president Richard Nixon in a narrow, cut throat election. (History.com) In the mist of the cold war and the tension steadily rising between the US and Soviet Union, President Kennedy was destined to become a major influence on the end result of the tension between communist Russia and the United States. Shortly before Kennedy’s Victory over Nixon, Cuba fell under new leadership and with that leadership communism sat right under the tail of the United States. American’s did not like the idea of communism just 100 feet from our borders so in 1961, the CIA was given a green light to conduct a covert mission in Cuba to overthrow the communist dictatorship and remove Fidel Castro

This lead to the draft and a large upset in the general public and a lot of riots from the people because people didn't want to be apart of this war now more than ever. When more problems started to occur to Lyndon Johnson he decided to come out publicly and say that he will not be running for president in the next election. This started to give the people a feeling that they felt they have won, and believed anything was now possible. When Lyndon Johnson’s presidency was over Richard Nixon won the election and one of the first things he started was the major situation that was growing on in Vietnam. Although the first few years in office he still was battling in Vietnam, in 1973 he signed the Paris Peace Accords which was the treaty that ended America’s participation in Vietnam.

Kennedy was President while the Cold War was at its height, and his anti-communist policies made him unpopular with communists and communist sympathisers. The Bay of Pigs incident, when he refused to sanction air cover, thus ensuring its failure, lost Kennedy support from both Hawks and Doves in his government. The Hawks were angry at lack of a full-scale invasion, whereas the Doves were against military operations in the first place. Not only did his own government now have motives to get rid of their seemingly 'incompetent' leader, but also did Fidel Castro.

John F. Kennedy, an increasingly popular past American president, can also be associated with allowing one the greatest military failures ever committed by the United States. The toppling of a Cuban government, which facilitated American interests, by revolutionary Fidel Castro and his regime led many political figures to press for action prior to the election of 1960. The 34th president of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower and his administration were the first to deliberate upon military intervention and, ‘On March 17, President Eisenhower gave formal approval to a ‘program of covert action against the Castro regime’.’ Kennedy, who took a hard stance on communism during his presidential campaign, adopted the same policy as his predecessor

The United States, sought to drive communism out by supporting any groups with money and defense who wanted to oust their communist governments; while on the other hand, the Soviet Union supported all other communist countries similarly. As such, one of the conflicts of the Cold War, was the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1962, Cuba, with the support of Soviets who sent nuclear missiles to Cuba, began to build nuclear missiles sites to launch up nuclear capabilities (Keller, Klee, Zeitz, and Holdren 831). President Kennedy did not want communism to have any strategic prominence in the Western Hemisphere; in response, President Kennedy set up a naval blockade barring ships from Cuba and also warned of retaliatory attacks (Keller, Klee, Zeitz, and Holdren 831). Since neither, the United States nor the Soviet Union wanted a nuclear war, they negotiated and the missiles were removed from Cuba. Another proxy war, with a much greater fallout, included the Vietnam War. This war was originally lasted roughly 20 years, and was originally between North Vietnam (communist) and South Vietnam (non-communist). The Soviets had been supporting North Vietnam in the war, the U.S. had been supporting South Vietnam, and it took about a decade before U.S. even entered the Vietnam War. In the end, “1.5 million Vietnamese died in the conflict, along with 58,000 Americans” and North Vietnam and South Vietnam became one; the country of Vietnam continues to be a Communist state today (Keller, Klee, Zeitz, and Holdren 842-844). The United States would not have likely entered the war without popularly held “domino theory” that in Southeast Asia if one country fell to communism, the others would likely follow (Keller, Klee, Zeitz, and Holdren 832). Again, this war was an issue of containment, versus an act of

The conflict in Vietnam for the United States started when President Dwight D. Eisenhower went along with the domino theory and sent in military advisors in South Vietnam to stop the communist movement from taking place in South Vietnam. The Vietnam conflict was between the communist’s and the United States. North Vietnam was led by Ho Chi Minh, and Ho Chi Minh led the Viet Cong, a guerilla group to help spread communism. The United States were supporters of the South Vietnam because they wanted them to maintain their government rather than falling to the domino theory of communism. After Eisenhower’s term ended John F. Kennedy became president and took control of the situation of Vietnam but on November 22, 1963, Kennedy was

The election was held and Ho Chi Minh was elected to be the communist leader. After establishing Ngo Dinh Diem as the leader of South Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh established the Viet Cong who ventured into South Vietnam to encourage communism and gain support of Ho Chi Minh. War between Vietnam and the United States was declared in 1965 due to the sinking of an American naval boat. Lyndon B. Johnson came into office in 1964, and with holding office for just a few months, President Johnson decided to drop bombs in Vietnam. Dispersing numerous bombs, the U.S. targeted the North Vietnamese economy in hope for a halt in the support of the guerrilla fighters who were among the South Vietnamese

After noticing that South Vietnam was on shaky ground, President Kennedy decided to send in a limited number of troops to aid Diem and his government. However, Diem began to lose popularity among his people and eventually he and his brother were assassinated. Three weeks after the deaths of these two leaders, President Kennedy was assassinated. President Lyndon B. Johnson decided more action needed to be taken in South Vietnam and, after two U.S. ships were destroyed in the Gulf on Tonkin, Johnson and his administration began to order air attacks upon the North Vietnamese (the U.S. referred to them as the "Vietcong"). Soon afterwards, the NLF attacked two U.S. army installations in South Vietnam and, as a result, Johnson orders bombing missions